Several years since the release of 2016’s radio-smashing, Juno-nominated breakthrough Swooner, the group was ready to start a new cycle and a new direction. “We thought it was hilarious to make a Britpop record at a time when nobody but us is listening to that,” Gray muses. “but...
Moving along with light jazz tones, faint country and western noir gallops, doo wop atmospheres, lounge pop moved via an utterly compelling guiro propelled rhythm (the use of the guiro is everything here) as a gorgeously made bed for Nessel to lay his vocals in is as sweet as the black ...
The masterful musicality is subtle but listen to just the music, the falling piano lines, the plaintive lead guitar work and more and you realize the dark beauty filling in the spaces, supporting the darkness of the words. I also feel a sort of Americana rock thing happening here in the ...
The songs on "Stay Gone" feel bruised and battered, full of rage and fury and moments of deep reflection and Calyx (musically) curses, spits, swings and punches even while the 7 foot bouncer is carrying them out of the bar. Let's talk about their last track, "Noseeums", which, as ...
The track Flawless by The Arthur Brothers begins as if it is being played through one lone broken vintage speaker and the effect feels like a distant memory. When the song shifts into it's fully realized modern sound it feels like a passionate hymn or gospel. The stacked acoustic guitars, ...
Spending every moment of his free time first building his own music space in a spare bedroom, then amassing a collection of vintage music instruments and effects, Phileas Fogg began to craft his timeless melodies until they finally began to burst out of his world....
The track 1996, For Luke Graham, Ryan Hibler and Aaron Mickelson (yes that is really the name) by singer-songwriter Drew Danburry is so stuffed with lovely sing-songy earworm melodies, embracing production touches and Danburry's friend folkish vocal performance. The rhythms, which at first ...
Yorn's melodies are always ear-wormy but don't feel like it because they get stuck in your heart as well as your brain. The feeling of losing something and of longing to have something is deeply ingrained in the sound of Jeannine inspired by Jeannine Deckers, who was a Belgium singer ...